Yellowstone Vernacular Photo Album de Shepherd, Helen [Yellowstone] [Western Touring] - 1916

[Yellowstone National Park], 1916. [66]pp. Oblong quarto [28.5 cm x 36.5 cm] Black striated leather. 287 silver gelatin photographs of varying sizes in corner mounts on black leaves. All views well identified in white ink beneath, most views approximately 11 cm x 7 cm. The album is interspersed throughout with 85 contemporary post cards (most are Haynes '100' series views). Contains lengthy descriptions neatly in white ink throughout.

An excellent, artful and carefully created album documenting a trip through Yellowstone National Park by a small group of women (all identified) that began in June of 1916 in Chicago aboard the Los Angeles Limited to Salt Lake City and then north into the Park. This well-documented trip though Yellowstone began June 14, 1916, and continued until September 1, 1916. Nice views of all the sites and activities that one may see and partake in (geysers, rivers, falls, camping, riding, wading, etc.). These women stayed throughout the park at Riverside, Geyser, and Canyon camps.

"Bears at Canyon Camp. The mother bear likes for you to feed her babies and will stand off and let you pet them as long as you have candy or sweet things to feed them.